BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Music: Classical

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: New Irish Music

Hear and Now: New Irish Music: Episode 1: Christopher Norby, Ian Wilson, David Morris, Frank Lyons, Brian Irvine

Christopher Norby, Ian Wilson, David Morris, Frank Lyons, Brian Irvine

Episode 1

Episode 1: Christopher Norby, Ian Wilson, David Morris, Frank Lyons, Brian Irvine

New Irish Music

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, New Irish Music, Christopher Norby, Ian Wilson, David Morris, Frank Lyons, Brian Irvine

Recent Irish orchestral works, including premieres by Christopher Norby and Brian Irvine.

Ed McKeon introduces new and recent orchestral works from Ireland, including music by Ian Wilson, David Morris and Frank Lyons, and premieres by Christopher Norby and Brian Irvine.

Ed McKeon introduces the first of two programmes of new Irish music, this week featuring a concert given by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jurjen Hempel

Christopher Norby: A Tale of Fractured Minds (BBC Radio 3 Commission, world premiere)
Ian Wilson: Rise
David Morris: Jump 
Frank Lyons: Unbreakable
Brian Irvine: My cow's not pretty but it's pretty to me (world premiere)

Plus composer Donnacha Dennehy talks about his new CD, Gra agus Bas.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Ed McKeown presents new music from Ireland, including Christopher Norby and Ian Wilson

Ed McKeown presents new music from Ireland, including Christopher Norby, Ian Wilson, Frank Lyons and Cathal Roche, with performances by the Ulster Orchestra and the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet

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Episode 1: Christopher Norby, Ian Wilson, David Morris, Frank Lyons, Brian Irvine

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